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Use Knowledge Mosaic to set up real-time alerts on company dealmaking

As of our recent Knowledge Mosaic upgrade, our SEC Watchlist offers precision alerting not previously possible on our platform. For example, you can now set up alerts on specific 8-K items. That’s a big deal, because it opens the door to alerting on a variety of major public company announcements – bankruptcies, delistings and trading suspensions, changes in directors and officers, major financial news, and so on.

It also includes the “Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement” item, in which companies formally disclose the completion of a major deal such as a merger. So you can now set up a Watchlist to be notified when such deals happen. Here is a basic template for this kind of alert: